Alex Lightly told Newsweek she used to hate her hair when she was younger, but has "learned to see the beauty" in her differences.

All leprosy patients, along with their household contacts, were systematically categorized based on sex, age, and specific type of leprosy (as detailed in Table 1). This classification underscores the ...

Several questions about BCG vaccination and leprosy remain unanswered, including the duration of protective immunity, whether the protective efficacy in multibacillary forms is different to ...

In this review, the authors present M. leprae as a model for investigating the role of the human immune system in host defense and susceptibility to infection.

ACCORDING to a paper on this subject by Dr. G. W. McCoy, medical director (retired) of the United States Public Health Service (Public Health Rep., Dec. 18), leprosy tends to disappear from many ...